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  • August 12, 2014 at 2:57 am

    #1737135

    You know everybody can read this thread, right? It was an honest mistake and I apologised immediately. Is this really necessary?

  • August 12, 2014 at 2:58 am

    #1737136

    Beatrix Kiddo (8/12/2014)

    You know everybody can read this thread, right? It was an honest mistake and I apologised immediately. Is this really necessary?

    Is what really necessary?

    Gail Shaw
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  • August 12, 2014 at 3:00 am

    #1737137

    Tweeting about my mistake. I was only trying to help. I didn't suggest doing anything dangerous.

  • August 12, 2014 at 8:01 am

    #1737222

    Beatrix Kiddo (8/12/2014)

    Tweeting about my mistake. I was only trying to help. I didn't suggest doing anything dangerous.

    Well, I know at least one person who is totally lost on this one. :unsure:

  • August 12, 2014 at 8:03 am

    #1737223

    So we had some torrential rain yesterday (up to 6" in some places in a couple hours, more than double the normal rainfall for August) Roads flooded, basements flooded (my house is on a crawl, so no flood there,) cars underwater (literally!) There's even one picture of a freeway overpass, 14'-8" clearance, with water up to the bottom.

    Wife went grocery shopping after she got off work, because of the rain stopped in a Lowe's parking lot on her way home to try to wait out the worst of it. Well, She got home at 7:30 this morning after I went out and picked her up. The city started offering people bus rides to the nearby community center for the night, which she took them up on.

    For the first time in anyone's memory around here *ALL* the major freeways have at least some closure due to flooding. At some point today, the wife and I are going to drive over to our new house (under construction and *almost* done) to check on it. I went by yesterday when the rain was starting to take a look, and the sump pump was running full tilt, so now I'm concerned the basement flooded...

    Thankfully, the only thing(s) that would be ruined would be the furnace and some spare construction materials (bricks, tile, paint,) and the furnace would be replaced I would expect by the builders (seeing as they currently technically own the house still.)

    And my work closed for the day, although I've got some stuff I'm going to do from home later...

    Oh, and it's supposed to rain *AGAIN* today...

    :crazy:

  • August 12, 2014 at 8:15 am

    #1737228

    jasona.work (8/12/2014)

    So we had some torrential rain yesterday (up to 6" in some places in a couple hours, more than double the normal rainfall for August) Roads flooded, basements flooded (my house is on a crawl, so no flood there,) cars underwater (literally!) There's even one picture of a freeway overpass, 14'-8" clearance, with water up to the bottom.

    Wife went grocery shopping after she got off work, because of the rain stopped in a Lowe's parking lot on her way home to try to wait out the worst of it. Well, She got home at 7:30 this morning after I went out and picked her up. The city started offering people bus rides to the nearby community center for the night, which she took them up on.

    For the first time in anyone's memory around here *ALL* the major freeways have at least some closure due to flooding. At some point today, the wife and I are going to drive over to our new house (under construction and *almost* done) to check on it. I went by yesterday when the rain was starting to take a look, and the sump pump was running full tilt, so now I'm concerned the basement flooded...

    Thankfully, the only thing(s) that would be ruined would be the furnace and some spare construction materials (bricks, tile, paint,) and the furnace would be replaced I would expect by the builders (seeing as they currently technically own the house still.)

    And my work closed for the day, although I've got some stuff I'm going to do from home later...

    Oh, and it's supposed to rain *AGAIN* today...

    :crazy:

    Glad to hear that you and your wife are okay. Curious, where do you call home?

  • August 12, 2014 at 8:23 am

    #1737232

    GilaMonster (8/12/2014)

    So three days after implementing replication, I have a pile or replication-related errors on my desk (cannot truncate table because it's replicated, lob size exceeds max replicated text size)

    How the #$%^%&^% did this pass QA testing?

    Oh, let me guess, the app wasn't part of the testing. $#%$!!!!

    In other words, SOP.:cool:

    Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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  • August 12, 2014 at 8:25 am

    #1737234

    Lynn Pettis (8/12/2014)

    Beatrix Kiddo (8/12/2014)

    Tweeting about my mistake. I was only trying to help. I didn't suggest doing anything dangerous.

    Well, I know at least one person who is totally lost on this one. :unsure:

    Make that two. Unless Beatrix is being funny and playing it up about Gails post and tweet (re: failure to QA).:unsure:

    Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
    _______________________________________________
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    SQL RNNR
    Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw[/url]
    Learn Extended Events

  • August 12, 2014 at 8:27 am

    #1737237

    jasona.work (8/12/2014)

    So we had some torrential rain yesterday (up to 6" in some places in a couple hours, more than double the normal rainfall for August) Roads flooded, basements flooded (my house is on a crawl, so no flood there,) cars underwater (literally!) There's even one picture of a freeway overpass, 14'-8" clearance, with water up to the bottom.

    Wife went grocery shopping after she got off work, because of the rain stopped in a Lowe's parking lot on her way home to try to wait out the worst of it. Well, She got home at 7:30 this morning after I went out and picked her up. The city started offering people bus rides to the nearby community center for the night, which she took them up on.

    For the first time in anyone's memory around here *ALL* the major freeways have at least some closure due to flooding. At some point today, the wife and I are going to drive over to our new house (under construction and *almost* done) to check on it. I went by yesterday when the rain was starting to take a look, and the sump pump was running full tilt, so now I'm concerned the basement flooded...

    Thankfully, the only thing(s) that would be ruined would be the furnace and some spare construction materials (bricks, tile, paint,) and the furnace would be replaced I would expect by the builders (seeing as they currently technically own the house still.)

    And my work closed for the day, although I've got some stuff I'm going to do from home later...

    Oh, and it's supposed to rain *AGAIN* today...

    :crazy:

    I saw on the local news that the Michigan State Police are asking everyone to stay off all freeways until they're cleared out. I don't remember all freeways ever being impacted all at once. They had pictures last night of people just continuing to drive on roads covered with feet of water, which made me wonder what they were thinking. There was one shot of a full-sized van where you could just see the top of it and the owner (on the phone) said that there were 4 cars around him, but you couldn't see them.

    My house sites on 1.3 acres and the back yard was a lake several feet deep. It was about 1 foot away from our walk-out basement. Everyone's fine and the house is dry, but many people didn't fair so well. The sheer volume of water involved is just mind-blowing.

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  • August 12, 2014 at 8:34 am

    #1737241

    Lynn Pettis (8/12/2014)

    jasona.work (8/12/2014)

    So we had some torrential rain yesterday (up to 6" in some places in a couple hours, more than double the normal rainfall for August) Roads flooded, basements flooded (my house is on a crawl, so no flood there,) cars underwater (literally!) There's even one picture of a freeway overpass, 14'-8" clearance, with water up to the bottom.

    Glad to hear that you and your wife are okay. Curious, where do you call home?

    City of Warren Michigan, just north of (as in I can walk out to my garage, look down the street and see) Detroit...

    So one video on the news last night, looked the trailer for a semi was floating in the waters.

    I'm expecting LOTS of problems with the roads in the coming weeks / months, saw a lot of the gunk they put in the expansion joints of pavement and use to fill cracks that had been pushed out by the water presumably coming up from under the pavement. Probably going to see lots of pavement settling and cracking...

    Time to trade in my year old little blue go-cart for something a bit more suitable for weather like this and the winter just past...

    Get myself a civilian first-gen, diesel version of one of these...[/url]

  • August 12, 2014 at 8:34 am

    #1737242

    Ed Wagner (8/12/2014)

    jasona.work (8/12/2014)

    So we had some torrential rain yesterday (up to 6" in some places in a couple hours, more than double the normal rainfall for August) Roads flooded, basements flooded (my house is on a crawl, so no flood there,) cars underwater (literally!) There's even one picture of a freeway overpass, 14'-8" clearance, with water up to the bottom.

    Wife went grocery shopping after she got off work, because of the rain stopped in a Lowe's parking lot on her way home to try to wait out the worst of it. Well, She got home at 7:30 this morning after I went out and picked her up. The city started offering people bus rides to the nearby community center for the night, which she took them up on.

    For the first time in anyone's memory around here *ALL* the major freeways have at least some closure due to flooding. At some point today, the wife and I are going to drive over to our new house (under construction and *almost* done) to check on it. I went by yesterday when the rain was starting to take a look, and the sump pump was running full tilt, so now I'm concerned the basement flooded...

    Thankfully, the only thing(s) that would be ruined would be the furnace and some spare construction materials (bricks, tile, paint,) and the furnace would be replaced I would expect by the builders (seeing as they currently technically own the house still.)

    And my work closed for the day, although I've got some stuff I'm going to do from home later...

    Oh, and it's supposed to rain *AGAIN* today...

    :crazy:

    I saw on the local news that the Michigan State Police are asking everyone to stay off all freeways until they're cleared out. I don't remember all freeways ever being impacted all at once. They had pictures last night of people just continuing to drive on roads covered with feet of water, which made me wonder what they were thinking. There was one shot of a full-sized van where you could just see the top of it and the owner (on the phone) said that there were 4 cars around him, but you couldn't see them.

    My house sites on 1.3 acres and the back yard was a lake several feet deep. It was about 1 foot away from our walk-out basement. Everyone's fine and the house is dry, but many people didn't fair so well. The sheer volume of water involved is just mind-blowing.

    Wow - glad you are both ok.

    Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
    _______________________________________________
    I have given a name to my pain...MCM SQL Server, MVP
    SQL RNNR
    Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw[/url]
    Learn Extended Events

  • August 12, 2014 at 8:57 am

    #1737259

    Thanks all for the well wishes!

    If you're interested, here's some pics from around the area showing the flooding:

    http://www.clickondetroit.com/weather/images-flooded-metro-detroit-roads/27419082

  • August 12, 2014 at 9:03 am

    #1737260

    SQLRNNR (8/12/2014)

    Lynn Pettis (8/12/2014)

    Beatrix Kiddo (8/12/2014)

    Tweeting about my mistake. I was only trying to help. I didn't suggest doing anything dangerous.

    Well, I know at least one person who is totally lost on this one. :unsure:

    Make that two.

    I tweeted about a forum Q & A earlier, the usual, a paraphrase of the Q and a paraphrase of the A, no names. Wasn't until way later I put the quote in context when I (much later) saw who had made the forum answer.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

  • August 12, 2014 at 10:00 am

    #1737282

    Koen Verbeeck (8/11/2014)

    GilaMonster (8/11/2014)

    LutzM (8/10/2014)

    b) block that spammer (mominbd) and all its variations using a filter

    Maybe a throttle on posting new threads. A human can't post multiple threads in a very short time, the bots can (this mornings were around a minute apart)

    1 minute between 1st and 2nd threads, 2 minutes between 2nd and 3rd, etc. Like with increasing delays for failed logins (which is recommended a security idea), it's unlikely to bother real users (other than the ones cross posting their stuff everywhere).

    +1 seems effective.

    I have sent some of these ideas to our developers. Fingers are crossed they'll do something.

  • August 12, 2014 at 1:00 pm

    #1737326

    jasona.work (8/12/2014)

    Thanks all for the well wishes!

    If you're interested, here's some pics from around the area showing the flooding:

    http://www.clickondetroit.com/weather/images-flooded-metro-detroit-roads/27419082

    We had some flooding in June, but that looks much worse.

    Glad everyone is OK.

    You are right - lots of hidden damage.

    Especially when the water takes awhile to go down.

    Hope your area recovers quickly.

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